WA SHIPWRECKS MUSEUM Dive into the fascinating history of Australia’s oldest shipwrecks.

WA 12 31 SHIPWRECKS Sep Jan MUSEUM

Entry to this exhibition is free

1300 134 081 / museum.wa.gov.au

OPEN 9.30AM – 5PM DAILY ENTRY IS FREE museum.wa.gov.au/shipwrecks Check our website for public holiday hours Cliff Street, Fremantle 1300 134 081

This publication is printed on paper that is carbon neutral and made from 100% recycled post-consumer waste museum.wa.gov.au/shipwrecks The Batavia Gallery Tours Deep Light: Illuminating the Permanent Exhibition Our Shared Stories WA Shipwrecks Wrecks of Sydney Batavia is Australia’s second-oldest known shipwreck. Free Tour Museum Highlights On the morning of 4 June 1629, the VOC shipwrecked Every Friday Free Tour and Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia. The ship’s senior Explore the nature and Every Day officers, some crew and passengers—48 in total— impact of interactions Take a guided tour through deserted the remaining 268 people while they went in between Aboriginal and search for water and help. the WA Shipwrecks Museum Exhibition non-Aboriginal people galleries with a Visitor What followed remains one of the deadliest mutinies from the time of Dutch Services Officer. Tours 12 September – 31 January exploration through to the in known history. commence at 10.30am and 1800s. The World War Two encounter between HMAS 2.30pm. Enquire at front Sydney (II) and the disguised German raider HSK 334 years later, fishermen and divers located the desk for details. wreck of Batavia. Between 1972 – 1976 the Western Kormoran off the Western Australian coast stands Australian Museum’s Maritime Archaeologists as Australia’s worst naval disaster. 81 men from conducted a series of excavations, recovering Kormoran were killed and 318 survived. All 645 men numerous artefacts including part of the hull. Events on Sydney were lost. After undergoing extensive treatment and restoration, In 2015, the WA Museum and Curtin University these artefacts and the original hull are now on display July – December 2020 returned to the wreck sites. Using remotely at the WA Shipwrecks Museum, revealing a story of controlled equipment, the team captured stunning trade, betrayal and scientific ingenuity. underwater images that revealed the fate of the ships on the seabed, over two kilometres beneath the waves. In this poignant exhibition, remarkable images and footage allow us to witness this tragic moment in World War Two history.

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